Bryan Williams, a long time Liberal Party of Canada supporter was appointed Chief Justice on the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1996 by Prime Minister Jean Chretien.

Chief Justice Williams suddenly resigned in February, 2000, at age 67 from a post he would have held to age 75, amid charges of judicial manipulation of the Sun Belt Water Inc. lawsuit in the British Columbia courts.

The full details of the judicial manipulation carried out by Bryan Williams have not yet been made public and may never be known.

In July, 1999, Mr. Carten filed his first complaint about Chief Justice Bryan Williams with the Canadian Judicial Council. Immediately, Chief Justice Williams took what appears to have been retaliatory action by withdrawingJustice James Shabbits from his position as assigned judge on the Sun Belt Lawsuit and inserting Justice Howard Skipp.

Shortly after Justice Skipp dismissed the Sun Belt Water Inc. lawsuit information was obtained that Prime Minister Jean Chretien and a number of Liberal Party of Canada politicians had been investors in W.C.W.>Western Canada Water Enterprises Ltd. Upon receipt of this information, Mr Carten "connected the dots" and, in late December 1999, filed a complaint with the Canadian Judicial Council alleging that Chief Justice Bryan Williams was manipulating the judicial process by inserting puppets to favour the Prime Minister of Canada.

Within six weeks, Chief Justice Bryan Williams suddenly announced that he would be resigning his immediately.